The following will tar and compress the contents of a directory tar czf file.tar.gz input_directory The same can be extracted with tar but indicating compression . tar xzvf file.tar.gz output_directory […]

Because I tend to forget this is a simple way of mount a USB drive in Raspbian. Remember we are working with FAT/FAT32 formatted drive and permissions are handled differently in the case of a FAT drive permissions are not supported . First we need to find out how the system views our drive and […]

Because I tend to forget. This is a simple way to zero out all free space on a drive all that is needed is PV and administrative privileges . If PV is not installed on the system you can install it via your package manager . $ sudo apt-get install pv We will be directing […]

Mp3Wrap is a simple tool all we need to do is indicate a filename for the resulting file followed by all the MP3 files to be joined by Mp3Wrap. Mp3Wrap can be easily installed from the Ubuntu repository using apt-get. $ sudo apt-get install mp3wrap Explanation of command to be executed: output.mp3 – this is […]

By default Dump1090 interface will not display the distance between an aircraft and the site this can be easily corrected by editing a single file and providing the latitude and longitude where the receiver(yours) is located. The file in question can be located for Dump1090-mutability at /etc/default/dump1090-mutability Before we can start editing the configuration file […]

From the RouterOS command line move to /ip service and issue the print command this will display port numbers for various services and which of those services are currently enabled. I will also cover how to disable the services if you wish, the output below is from a recent RouterOS install. [admin@MikroTik] /ip service> print […]

I’ve been running a PiAware installation for the last couple of months but after a reinstall I notice some problems specifically with dump1090 provided by the PiAware installation instructions. After searching on various forums I decided to give dump1090-mutability a fork of dump1090 a try and can report great success which is why I decided […]

I came across a problem that only seems happen on PiAwawre self installs where Dump1090 will not run. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo piaware-status dump1090 is not running. faup1090 is not running. piaware is running. no program appears to be listening for connections on port 30005. faup1090 is NOT connected to port 30005. piaware is connected to […]

You can read more about FastTrack from the Mikrotik Wiki on FastTrack. The function has it’s advantages by increasing throughout and reducing CPU load. However I wanted to limit bandwidth to clients and FastTrack had to be disabled in order to limit. From the RouterOS command line move to /ip firewall filter and issue the […]